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smcameron / space-nerds-in-space

Multi-player spaceship bridge simulator game. Captain your starship through adventures with your friends. See https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space
GNU General Public License v2.0
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One player out of six had issues connecting to lobby. #330

Closed smcameron closed 9 months ago

smcameron commented 1 year ago

Had a 5 or 6 player SNIS session. One player was unable to connect to the lobby. Network appeared OK, could ping the server just fine. However, on the network setup screen, it did not seem to receive the broadcast UDP packets that announce the IP address of the server. Putting in the IP address and port manually did not help. I'm not sure which distro she was running. SNIS said it tried to connect to the lobby zero times, which is weird. I believe I saw Connection Refused at least once. Maybe some firewall rules of some kind prevented it from working (speculation)?

smcameron commented 9 months ago

I don't really have enough information to solve whatever this was. One idea that occurred to me since then is that it seems somewhat likely that this person was running linux within a virtual machine, and maybe there was something weird about the VM's network setup. In any case, I have no way to confirm or reject any hypothesis about this particular incident, so I'm closing this.